Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 7,909 5,635 7,174
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.72% 23.03% 19.14%
As % of the General category 34.42% 35.80% 33.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,048 3,760 5,000
10th Percentile £356 £350 £362
25th Percentile £446 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £572 £590
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.05% -1.67%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 103 243
10th Percentile £14.98 £18.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.44 £15.08
Median hourly rate £34.25 £38.11 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.13% +36.11% +0.07%
75th Percentile £54.30 £65.13 £38.12
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.97 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £38.11 £27.00
% change year-on-year -12.10% +41.15% -10.00%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 22,978 15,739 21,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.39% 64.32% 57.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,039 10,135 13,766
10th Percentile £313 £281 £281
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -1.66% -2.93%
75th Percentile £630 £644 £650
90th Percentile £745 £770 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +1.08% -3.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,585 736 1,832
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.30 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.23 £27.85 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% -11.59% +2.78%
75th Percentile £63.38 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £27.70 £30.00
% change year-on-year +12.82% -7.67% -6.25%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 10 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 4,759 £575 -4.17% 1,924
North of England +2 1,242 £492 +5.81% 644
North West +5 659 £463 +2.78% 349
South East -1 649 £500 -4.31% 850
Midlands -1 613 £500 +7.53% 363
Yorkshire 0 538 £525 +10.53% 232
West Midlands +1 433 £505 +0.70% 228
South West -2 367 £525 - 246
East of England +2 191 £513 -10.87% 181
East Midlands -1 175 £468 +7.66% 135
North East -13 46 £500 +13.96% 69
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 280 (3.54%) Confluence
2 197 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 76 (0.96%) Apache Spark
4 58 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
5 45 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 44 (0.56%) Apache
7 26 (0.33%) SAS
8 25 (0.32%) CMS
9 20 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
10 15 (0.19%) CICS
11 13 (0.16%) Appian
12 12 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 11 (0.14%) Camunda
13 11 (0.14%) IIS
14 10 (0.13%) Ethereum
14 10 (0.13%) Jupyter
15 6 (0.076%) HCL Notes
15 6 (0.076%) Hyperledger
15 6 (0.076%) Mendix
15 6 (0.076%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 439 (5.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 173 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
3 156 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 144 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
5 105 (1.33%) MS Visio
6 49 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
7 32 (0.40%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.063%) Trello
9 4 (0.051%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.051%) Sketch
10 3 (0.038%) Notion
11 2 (0.025%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.025%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.025%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.025%) InVision
11 2 (0.025%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.013%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.013%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.013%) UXPin
12 1 (0.013%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 287 (3.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 106 (1.34%) NetSuite
3 90 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
4 78 (0.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 78 (0.99%) Oracle Receivables
5 67 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
6 41 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
7 39 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
7 39 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
8 36 (0.46%) Oracle Financials
8 36 (0.46%) SAP FI
9 35 (0.44%) Aladdin
10 31 (0.39%) SAP CO
11 29 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
12 26 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 25 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
14 21 (0.27%) SAP BRIM
15 19 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
15 19 (0.24%) SAP ERP
15 19 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,252 (15.83%) Azure
2 907 (11.47%) AWS
3 551 (6.97%) Power Platform
4 388 (4.91%) GCP
5 275 (3.48%) SaaS
6 265 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
7 257 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
8 205 (2.59%) GitHub
9 190 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
10 154 (1.95%) Snowflake
11 147 (1.86%) Entra ID
12 126 (1.59%) Serverless
13 102 (1.29%) Amazon S3
14 101 (1.28%) Power Automate
15 95 (1.20%) OCI
16 89 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
17 82 (1.04%) OpenShift
18 80 (1.01%) dbt
19 78 (0.99%) Microsoft Copilot
20 77 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 145 (1.83%) Firewall
2 118 (1.49%) Network Security
3 68 (0.86%) DNS
4 66 (0.83%) VPN
5 56 (0.71%) TCP/IP
5 56 (0.71%) WAN
6 36 (0.46%) BGP
7 32 (0.40%) LAN
8 31 (0.39%) HTTP
9 29 (0.37%) DHCP
9 29 (0.37%) SSL
10 25 (0.32%) OSPF
11 24 (0.30%) MPLS
11 24 (0.30%) Multicast
12 21 (0.27%) Cisco ASA
12 21 (0.27%) SD-WAN
13 19 (0.24%) VSAN
14 17 (0.21%) VLAN
15 16 (0.20%) DMZ
15 16 (0.20%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 471 (5.96%) Power BI
2 220 (2.78%) SQL Server
3 209 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
4 154 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
5 141 (1.78%) Metadata
6 134 (1.69%) Relational Database
7 124 (1.57%) Tableau
8 113 (1.43%) Data Lake
9 84 (1.06%) NoSQL
10 68 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
11 66 (0.83%) Big Data
12 61 (0.77%) Oracle Database
13 55 (0.70%) BigQuery
14 47 (0.59%) MongoDB
15 43 (0.54%) Power Query
15 43 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 42 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
17 41 (0.52%) Delta Lake
18 39 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
19 33 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 587 (7.42%) JIRA
2 188 (2.38%) Git
3 141 (1.78%) Jenkins
4 89 (1.13%) GitLab
5 49 (0.62%) JUnit
6 46 (0.58%) Cucumber
7 36 (0.46%) Selenium
8 28 (0.35%) Postman
9 27 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
10 25 (0.32%) Visual Studio
11 24 (0.30%) MLflow
12 23 (0.29%) SonarQube
13 20 (0.25%) REST Assured
14 17 (0.21%) Maven
14 17 (0.21%) Zephyr
15 16 (0.20%) ERwin
16 14 (0.18%) Hudson
16 14 (0.18%) TeamCity
17 13 (0.16%) Bitbucket
18 11 (0.14%) Gradle
General
1 2,299 (29.07%) Social Skills
2 1,474 (18.64%) Banking
3 1,034 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
4 439 (5.55%) Public Sector
5 340 (4.30%) Legal
6 315 (3.98%) Financial Institution
7 302 (3.82%) Investment Banking
8 282 (3.57%) Front Office
9 263 (3.33%) Retail
10 250 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
11 193 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
12 187 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
13 142 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 134 (1.69%) Local Government
15 132 (1.67%) Manufacturing
16 129 (1.63%) Law
17 122 (1.54%) Marketing
18 118 (1.49%) General Ledger
19 116 (1.47%) Billing
20 113 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,161 (14.68%) Analyst
2 891 (11.27%) Senior
3 837 (10.58%) Lead
4 805 (10.18%) Developer
5 734 (9.28%) Architect
6 627 (7.93%) Project Manager
7 602 (7.61%) Business Analyst
8 504 (6.37%) Consultant
9 308 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
10 273 (3.45%) Data Engineer
11 208 (2.63%) Senior Manager
12 189 (2.39%) Financial Analyst
13 166 (2.10%) Finance Manager
14 163 (2.06%) Accountant
14 163 (2.06%) Data Analyst
15 153 (1.93%) Senior Developer
16 152 (1.92%) Java Developer
16 152 (1.92%) Programme Manager
16 152 (1.92%) Software Engineer
17 141 (1.78%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 237 (3.00%) .NET
2 236 (2.98%) REST
3 223 (2.82%) Kafka
4 217 (2.74%) React
5 181 (2.29%) Oracle Fusion
6 170 (2.15%) Middleware
7 138 (1.74%) Spring
8 137 (1.73%) Spring Boot
9 119 (1.50%) RESTful
10 96 (1.21%) PySpark
11 95 (1.20%) Node.js
12 91 (1.15%) Redux
13 88 (1.11%) AngularJS
14 73 (0.92%) JSON
15 71 (0.90%) OAuth
16 69 (0.87%) XML
17 62 (0.78%) CSS
18 59 (0.75%) Pandas
19 57 (0.72%) HTML
20 55 (0.70%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 359 (4.54%) Onboarding
2 340 (4.30%) Product Ownership
3 320 (4.05%) Cloud Native
4 225 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
5 189 (2.39%) Management Information System
6 168 (2.12%) Data Structures
7 148 (1.87%) Derivative
8 147 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 146 (1.85%) Fixed Income
10 142 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
11 135 (1.71%) Data Centre
12 133 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
13 111 (1.40%) Equities
14 108 (1.37%) Virtual Team
15 97 (1.23%) Public Cloud
16 95 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
17 93 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
18 85 (1.07%) AI Agents
19 84 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
20 73 (0.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 277 (3.50%) Windows
2 249 (3.15%) Linux
3 131 (1.66%) Unix
4 62 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 38 (0.48%) Windows 10
6 36 (0.46%) Solaris
7 30 (0.38%) Apple iOS
8 27 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 26 (0.33%) Android
10 25 (0.32%) zOS
11 19 (0.24%) Mac OS
12 16 (0.20%) AIX
13 7 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
14 6 (0.076%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.076%) VMS
14 6 (0.076%) Windows Server 2019
15 4 (0.051%) HPUX
15 4 (0.051%) MVS
15 4 (0.051%) SUSE
15 4 (0.051%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,651 (20.87%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,636 (20.69%) Agile
3 1,108 (14.01%) Migration
4 1,021 (12.91%) Problem-Solving
5 891 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 859 (10.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 840 (10.62%) DevOps
8 805 (10.18%) CI/CD
9 799 (10.10%) AI
9 799 (10.10%) ERP
10 774 (9.79%) Analytics
11 717 (9.07%) Project Management
12 684 (8.65%) Decision-Making
13 661 (8.36%) Data Modelling
14 653 (8.26%) Roadmaps
15 647 (8.18%) Validation
16 606 (7.66%) Business Intelligence
17 604 (7.64%) User Acceptance Testing
18 572 (7.23%) Change Management
19 522 (6.60%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,100 (13.91%) SQL
2 964 (12.19%) Python
3 543 (6.87%) Java
4 347 (4.39%) C#
5 224 (2.83%) JavaScript
6 212 (2.68%) TypeScript
7 174 (2.20%) PowerShell
8 86 (1.09%) C++
9 72 (0.91%) Bash
10 68 (0.86%) PL/SQL
11 67 (0.85%) Go
12 63 (0.80%) T-SQL
13 55 (0.70%) Shell Script
14 53 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 43 (0.54%) Scala
16 38 (0.48%) VBA
17 28 (0.35%) Bicep
18 27 (0.34%) Apex Code
18 27 (0.34%) Kotlin
19 26 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 664 (8.40%) Degree
2 619 (7.83%) Security Cleared
3 440 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 209 (2.64%) ACCA
5 202 (2.55%) PMP
6 186 (2.35%) CIMA
7 171 (2.16%) PMI Certification
8 143 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 130 (1.64%) CISSP
10 126 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
11 78 (0.99%) CISM
12 76 (0.96%) DV Cleared
12 76 (0.96%) Master's Degree
13 70 (0.89%) Azure Certification
14 58 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
15 43 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
16 40 (0.51%) AWS Certification
17 36 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 30 (0.38%) ISTQB
19 29 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 483 (6.11%) Data Quality
2 358 (4.53%) QA
3 298 (3.77%) PMO
4 274 (3.46%) GDPR
5 155 (1.96%) NIST
6 130 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 109 (1.38%) IFRS
8 92 (1.16%) SLA
9 88 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 83 (1.05%) GRC
11 71 (0.90%) Accessibility
12 61 (0.77%) PCI DSS
13 57 (0.72%) GAAP
14 55 (0.70%) ISO 20022
15 34 (0.43%) NCSC
15 34 (0.43%) PSD2
15 34 (0.43%) SEPA
16 29 (0.37%) IFRS 17
17 26 (0.33%) SOC 2
17 26 (0.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 257 (3.25%) Docker
2 157 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 52 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.35%) vSphere
5 25 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.14%) Hyper-V
10 10 (0.13%) NFS
11 9 (0.11%) RACF
12 6 (0.076%) GPFS
12 6 (0.076%) KVM
13 5 (0.063%) Microsoft App-V
14 3 (0.038%) GridGain
14 3 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.038%) SRDF
15 2 (0.025%) ACF2
15 2 (0.025%) Ceph
15 2 (0.025%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 357 (4.51%) Kubernetes
2 225 (2.84%) Terraform
3 123 (1.56%) Ansible
4 79 (1.00%) Grafana
5 67 (0.85%) Prometheus
6 63 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
7 49 (0.62%) SCCM
8 36 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
9 20 (0.25%) Control-M
10 18 (0.23%) FortiGate
11 17 (0.21%) vRealize
12 15 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 15 (0.19%) Progress Chef
13 14 (0.18%) Nessus
14 13 (0.16%) AirWatch
14 13 (0.16%) Argo
15 11 (0.14%) CASB
15 11 (0.14%) Puppet
16 9 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
16 9 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,020 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 650 (8.22%) Oracle
3 630 (7.97%) SAP
4 271 (3.43%) ServiceNow
5 235 (2.97%) Databricks
6 195 (2.47%) Salesforce
7 175 (2.21%) Google
8 115 (1.45%) Workday
9 108 (1.37%) Splunk
10 105 (1.33%) VMware
11 93 (1.18%) Cisco
12 85 (1.07%) CyberArk
13 81 (1.02%) IBM
14 62 (0.78%) Citrix
15 56 (0.71%) OpenAI
16 54 (0.68%) Sage
17 53 (0.67%) Ariba
18 49 (0.62%) Bloomberg
19 45 (0.57%) IFS
20 42 (0.53%) Informatica